Data mashups is a web application that collects data from various source using a single tool. Data mashups are powerful tools for navigating and visualising data sets. Most mashups are web-based and downloading is not required. Mashups are the tools that give us the ability to reach in and put information to use. They are very common on the internet today, and new tools are being developed that will enable anybody and everybody to create products without programming. It has been said there will be an increasing use of data mashups in teaching and learning in the future. Flickr, Twitter, Yahoo!Pipes and Google Maps are some of many examples of data mashups used world wide.Yahoo!Pipes is a popular mashup tool. It allows users to collect and display RSS content from all over the web.
Here is a link to our website we made that has more information about Data Mashups:
Botswana wildlife safari is our chosen context. We chose this because it gives us an opportunity to learn more about it and gives us also a wide range of information relating to our subjects here at school. We feel data mashups will help us to explore this context more efficiently and easily.
Examples
Junior/Primary
Data mashups will be useful to teachers in the Junior/Primary category since students from years 1-6 most probably won't have access to computers as they will still be learning the old school way. Teachers are positively impacted by data mashups because they can have information from multiple sources onto one programme which will make it easier for them to teach their pupils.
Middle/ High School
Data mashups is mostly used by Middle/High school students. It is more useful to students in this category as students here will have constant access to computers and will have more web-based assignments to do. Data mashups can help them because information from all over the web can be put together on one page to make it easier for them to research and collect data. It also helps them with writing book reports and bibliographies
The below youtube screening is a video of someone else's perspective on Data Mashups:
Team Members
Team Members include:
Shefali Parekh - Narrator, film producer, researcher (science, maths, music, art) and primary editor Hsiao-Nee Loh - Website, researcher (health, social studies, art) and team captain
Key: sddsdf = completed tasks
Targets
16th March - 22nd March
1. Set Wiki page up
2. Dossier of examples of technologies - links, clips, articles
3. Decide on context - launch/ annouce on wiki
4. Read assessment brief
5. Discuss curriculum links with subject teaching - record on wiki
6. list of IT skills your group needs to learn.
7. Watch video clip "video clip" 16th March
8. Read Chapter 1 "Grown up"
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index.php?lang=eng This is a website that shows a map that displays data relating to weather conditions, epidemic alerts and other incidents around the world. The map draws from over 200 news sources for the information it displays. www.healthmap.org/en
This link takes you to the Global Disease Alert Map. Here is the print screen below...
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Above is a print screen of the Health Map - Global Disease Alert Map
Botswana Wildlife Safari Subjects links
- Art - photography and scenery
- Music - African Music (e.g. Youtube)
- Health- comparison of humans and animals health and exercise
- Science - food chain
- Religious Studies- ethical issues of poachers
- Social Studies- weather conditions (climate change) , geography (Africa) (e.g. Google Earth)
- Maths - Statistics (graphs) on climate change
List of IT skills we need:
- know how to use SynthaSite
- know how to put links/ videos/ audio, etc on Google Earth/Map
- To explore Google's Mashup Editor
- How to upload our moviermaker file onto the net
- How to use the video camera and upload onto the computer
- Using search engines to research e.g. Google
Citations
Social Studies
Climate:
A country that's hot and dry most of the year but with unpredictable & highly regional rainfall in the summer months (November-March
Weather Conditions Guide
The winters in Botswana are pleasant and the nights are cool. The temperatures during the days are in the 20's but during the hot, dry summers temperatures can reach highs in the 30's. Desert temperatures are always hotter than anywhere else and there is the occasional drizzle in the Kalahari.
It is in Southern Africa, and is in north of South Africa. The size of Botswana is slightly smaller than Texas.
Africa map, copyright Uyaphi.com
Here is a close up picture of Botswana:
Maths:
The graph above show the amount of rainfall Botswana gets each month and the temperatures that rise each month too. A similarity between the two graphs is that the measurments decrease from January to June and increase from July to December. Rainfall
Between the months of January and June, the rainfall decreases. Between the months of August and December, the rainfall increases. During the season of July, there is very little to no rainfall at all. The months of January and December have the largest amount of rainfall – 100mm. The months of May, June, July, August and September have the least amount of rainfall – approx 20mm and below.
Health
For health, we researched about the muscles of the human and animal body.
All these sites are about the muscles in either human or animal bodies.
23rd March -28th March
1. Review week 2 targets
- ensure reflection on wiki
- transfer incomplete targets to week 3 goals/ targets
2. Planning/ begin the video (need equipment, skills, props, script and topic)
3. Thinking about presentation (script)
4. Finish researching the content for the curriculum links (update the information on our website)
5. Finalise wiki template/format
6. Work on our website (SynthaSite)
Art
For art, we are doing photography and sceneries. For our video, we are going to film plastic animals shadows and having a sunrise as the background for our beginning.
Giraffe - Todd Horne
Art Print Megan Aroon Duncanson ZEBRA LOVE - Megan Aroon-Duncanson
Science
MRS C GREN Movement: Moving from one place to another.
Respiration: Breathing oxygen in and carbon dioxide out
Sensitivity: The reaction/adaptation taken to suit the environment
Cells: Made up of many cells (multi cellular)
Growth: Growing from a baby to an adult (birth from egg or womb)
Reproduction: Mating to make babies for the next generations’ survival
Excretion: Getting rid of waste products from the body (eg. moisture and gas)
Nutrition: Consuming food for growth purposes. Nutrients for animals include fats and carbohydrates that provide energy and proteins and vitamins to help them perform their functions.
Here is an animal cell. It consists of the cytoplasm which is the jelly-like material holding the cell in place, the nucleus which controls the cell and contains genetic information and the cell membrane which is the thin covering surrounding of the cell controlling the movement of nutrients going in and wastes coming out.
30th March- 2nd April
1. Publish our website by this Wednesday
2. Finish our video on time
3. Practise the script we are going to say on our presentation
4. Finish all filming for our video
Video:
Data Mashups
Data mashups Background
Data mashups is a web application that collects data from various source using a single tool. Data mashups are powerful tools for navigating and visualising data sets. Most mashups are web-based and downloading is not required. Mashups are the tools that give us the ability to reach in and put information to use. They are very common on the internet today, and new tools are being developed that will enable anybody and everybody to create products without programming. It has been said there will be an increasing use of data mashups in teaching and learning in the future. Flickr, Twitter, Yahoo!Pipes and Google Maps are some of many examples of data mashups used world wide.Yahoo!Pipes is a popular mashup tool. It allows users to collect and display RSS content from all over the web.Here is a link to our website we made that has more information about Data Mashups:
www.datamashups.synthasite.com
Context- Botswana Wildlife Safari
Botswana wildlife safari is our chosen context. We chose this because it gives us an opportunity to learn more about it and gives us also a wide range of information relating to our subjects here at school. We feel data mashups will help us to explore this context more efficiently and easily.
Examples
Junior/Primary
Data mashups will be useful to teachers in the Junior/Primary category since students from years 1-6 most probably won't have access to computers as they will still be learning the old school way. Teachers are positively impacted by data mashups because they can have information from multiple sources onto one programme which will make it easier for them to teach their pupils.Middle/ High School
Data mashups is mostly used by Middle/High school students. It is more useful to students in this category as students here will have constant access to computers and will have more web-based assignments to do. Data mashups can help them because information from all over the web can be put together on one page to make it easier for them to research and collect data. It also helps them with writing book reports and bibliographiesThe below youtube screening is a video of someone else's perspective on Data Mashups:
Team Members
Team Members include:
Shefali Parekh - Narrator, film producer, researcher (science, maths, music, art) and primary editor
Hsiao-Nee Loh - Website, researcher (health, social studies, art) and team captain
Key:
sddsdf = completed tasks
Targets
16th March - 22nd March1. Set Wiki page up
2. Dossier of examples of technologies - links, clips, articles
3. Decide on context - launch/ annouce on wiki
4. Read assessment brief
5. Discuss curriculum links with subject teaching - record on wiki
6. list of IT skills your group needs to learn.
7. Watch video clip "video clip" 16th March
8. Read Chapter 1 "Grown up"
Topic Theme: Botswana Safari
Examples:
Examples of articles
:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/63675525.stm
www.waynehodgins.typepad.com/ontarget/2007/07/mishmash-of-mas.html
www.del.icio.us/tag/hz08+mashup
Examples of data mashups:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index.php?lang=engThis is a website that shows a map that displays data relating to weather conditions, epidemic alerts and other incidents around the world. The map draws from over 200 news sources for the information it displays.
www.healthmap.org/en
This link takes you to the Global Disease Alert Map. Here is the print screen below...
Above is a print screen of the Health Map - Global Disease Alert Map
Botswana Wildlife Safari Subjects links
- Art - photography and scenery- Music - African Music (e.g. Youtube)
- Health- comparison of humans and animals health and exercise
- Science - food chain
- Religious Studies- ethical issues of poachers
- Social Studies- weather conditions (climate change) , geography (Africa) (e.g. Google Earth)
- Maths - Statistics (graphs) on climate change
List of IT skills we need:
- know how to use SynthaSite- know how to put links/ videos/ audio, etc on Google Earth/Map
- To explore Google's Mashup Editor
- How to upload our moviermaker file onto the net
- How to use the video camera and upload onto the computer
- Using search engines to research e.g. Google
Citations
Social Studies
Weather Conditions Guide
The winters in Botswana are pleasant and the nights are cool. The temperatures during the days are in the 20's but during the hot, dry summers temperatures can reach highs in the 30's. Desert temperatures are always hotter than anywhere else and there is the occasional drizzle in the Kalahari.
Here are some links for more information about the weather in Botswana:
http://www.safaridrive.com/destinations/botswana/botswana_weather.htm
This website has a table that shows the probability of rainfall in a year.
http://www.wildbotswana.com/travel/information/botswana_weather.html
This website talks about the summary of the weather in the summer etc.It also talks about the rainfalls and humidity
**http://weather.msn.com/region.aspx?wealocations=Botswanahttp://www.uyaphi.com/botswana/weather.htmhttp://www.uyaphi.com/botswana/weather.htm**
Seasons in Botswana:
Geography
It is in Southern Africa, and is in north of South Africa. The size of Botswana is slightly smaller than Texas.
Here is a close up picture of Botswana:
Maths:
The graph above show the amount of rainfall Botswana gets each month and the temperatures that rise each month too. A similarity between the two graphs is that the measurments decrease from January to June and increase from July to December.
Rainfall
Between the months of January and June, the rainfall decreases. Between the months of August and December, the rainfall increases. During the season of July, there is very little to no rainfall at all.
The months of January and December have the largest amount of rainfall – 100mm. The months of May, June, July, August and September have the least amount of rainfall – approx 20mm and below.
Health
For health, we researched about the muscles of the human and animal body.All these sites are about the muscles in either human or animal bodies.
http://www.mcwdn.org/Animals/AnimalFunctions.html
This link is about human muscles and is about the main muscles in a human body.
http://facstaff.gpc.edu/~jaliff/anahumus.htm
This link is about human muscles and is about the main muscles in a human body.
http://wps.prenhall.com/esm_freeman_biosci_1/0,6452,500694-,00.htmlThis link is about animal nutrition.
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761586788_2/Comparative_Anatomy.html#p34
This link shows all about how an animal need to survive and has information about all the systems in an animal.
This picture shows the muscle of a human body
Week 3 Targets:
23rd March -28th March1. Review week 2 targets
- ensure reflection on wiki
- transfer incomplete targets to week 3 goals/ targets
2. Planning/ begin the video (need equipment, skills, props, script and topic)
3. Thinking about presentation (script)
4. Finish researching the content for the curriculum links (update the information on our website)
5. Finalise wiki template/format
6. Work on our website (SynthaSite)
Art
For art, we are doing photography and sceneries. For our video, we are going to film plastic animals shadows and having a sunrise as the background for our beginning.Science
MRS C GREN Movement: Moving from one place to another.
Respiration: Breathing oxygen in and carbon dioxide out
Sensitivity: The reaction/adaptation taken to suit the environment
Cells: Made up of many cells (multi cellular)
Growth: Growing from a baby to an adult (birth from egg or womb)
Reproduction: Mating to make babies for the next generations’ survival
Excretion: Getting rid of waste products from the body (eg. moisture and gas)
Nutrition: Consuming food for growth purposes. Nutrients for animals include fats and carbohydrates that provide energy and proteins and vitamins to help them perform their functions.
Here is an animal cell. It consists of the cytoplasm which is the jelly-like material holding the cell in place, the nucleus which controls the cell and contains genetic information and the cell membrane which is the thin covering surrounding of the cell controlling the movement of nutrients going in and wastes coming out.
This link has a quiz testing your knowledge about animal cells. Enjoy!
http://www.kscience.co.uk/animations/animal_cell.htm
Here is a link to our website we made that has more information about Data Mashups:
www.datamashups.synthasite.com
Week 4 Targets
30th March- 2nd April1. Publish our website by this Wednesday
2. Finish our video on time
3. Practise the script we are going to say on our presentation
4. Finish all filming for our video